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Amy Gladys Cumpston born 1921.

Married Frank Roland McGrath 1944 Sydney.

There are other records of her activities:

CUMPSTON (McGrath), Amy G. Historian 1944–1952 0.07 Copies of her Ms. on the Balmain dispute in the Federated Ironworkers Association. http://www.archives.anu.edu.au/nbac/html/pdf/ListofHoldings%20_personalcollection.pdf

There are biographical papers in respect of Amy Reference Number: MS 11

Guide to the Papers of The Oxford companion to Australian literature

Academy Library, [email protected]

Special Collections, Academy Library, [email protected], CRICOS Provider Code: 00100G

Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra ACT 2600, Phone: +61 2 6268 6270

Fax: +61 2 6247 2324, Email: [email protected]

URL: http://www.lib.adfa.edu.au/speccoll/speccoll.htm

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Alphabetical biographical files: Cumpston, Amy;

In addition The National Library of Australia has an audio tape of a conversation with Amy Cumpston, poet and dramatist [sound recording] / interviewer, Hazel de Berg http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/364911

Audio Bib ID 364911 . Format Audio. Author McGrath, Amy, 1921-

Dr Amy McGRATH, OAM, JP was educated at Telopea Park High School, Canberra and at Sydney University (BA Hons; MA; PhD, 1975). In 1970 and 1971 she travelled to the USA and the UK, respectively, on U.S. State Department and British Council grants. She was the founding secretary of the Australian Playwrights Conference, and has twice been appointed to the Sydney University Senate. She has published widely, including most recently two books on electoral fraud, and in 1996 became the founding convenor of the H S Chapman Society, a body established to raise public awareness of the prevalence of electoral fraud in Australia.

Amy is the author of a number of poetry books and numerous other publications and has her own website :

Human, My Race Pacific Press, 1956 Bexley, [N.S.W.] : Pacific Press, 1955. Description: [24] p. ;
Borrow the Spring Edwards and Shaw of Sidney. Dedicated to her mother Gladys Cumpston. My First edition is dated 1961. On the inside flap of this volume it states 'This new collection will enhance the reputation already made by Amy Cumpston with her previous book 'Human, My Race'. Kenneth Slessor, reviewing that book in the Sun said: "Amy deserves wider recognition......several of the poems seem to me as good as anything that is being written in Australia at present".
The Towers of Earth - Poems of the Blue Mountains. Sydney 1969. Elizabethan Press, 1969. Description: 47 p. ; ISBN: 0950089303 "Dedicated to all those who in my family and my home diverted me to the pains and pleasures of poetry". On the fly sheet it states 'This is the third book of poems published by Amy Cumpston, and is a selection of her more recent poems inspired while spending school holidays in the Blue Mountains with her four daughters - first at Mt Wilson, then at Blackheath. Their weekend house has a view over the whole Blue Mountains Plateau to Sydney some 80 miles away'.
Australia, my home / by Amy MacGrath. (Point Piper) N.S.W. : Towerhouse Publications, 1991. [Point Piper], N.S.W. : Towerhouse Publications, 1991. Description: 142 p. ISBN: 0959187952(pbk.)
Opium lords : China 1832-42 / by Amy McGrath. Tower House Publications, 1997. Kensington, N.S.W. : Tower House Publications, 1997. Description: 335 p., [16] p. of plates : ISBN: 0958710414 (pbk.)
"This fatal island" (the words of Captain King): a drama on the death of Captain Cook. Centennial Park, NSW: 1973.
The chains of Marxian republics / by Amy McGrath. Record Id: 41079648 (Australian Library Collections) permalink Published: Brighton-le-Sands, NSW : Towerhouse Publications, 2006. ISBN: 0958710481 Dewey Number: A821.3
The forging of votes / Amy McGrath. Kensington, N.S.W. : Towerhouse Publications, [1994 or 1995] Description: 224 p., [16] p. of plates : ISBN: 0959187936 (at 48 libraries).
The frauding of votes? / by Amy McGrath. Kensington : Tower House Publications, [1996?] Description: 190 p. : ISBN: 0959187995
One man's food : the energy seesaw Point Piper, N.S.W. : Tower House Publications, 1996. Description: 200 p. ; ISBN: 0959187987 (pbk.)
Free from all curses / by Amy Macgrath. Sydney : Wolseley House, 1983. Description: 419 p. : ISBN: 0959187901 :
Corrupt elections : recent Australian studies and experiences of ballot rigging. Kensington, N.S.W. : Towerhouse Publications, 1997. Description: 213 p. ; ISBN: 0958710406
One man's poison : the 'glucose' factor / by Amy MacGrath. Tower [Ireland] ; [Point Piper, N.S.W.] : Tower House, 1990. Description: 161 p. ; ISBN: 0959187928
Canberra, home / Amy MacGrath. [Point Piper, N.S.W.] : Towerhouse Publications, 1992. Description: 96 p. : ISBN: 095918791X
Frauding of elections? / by Amy McGrath ; with appendix by Peter Brun ; review of certain matters from submissions and hearings into the 2001 federal election by the Commonwealth Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters. Brigthon-le Sands, N.S.W. : Towerhouse Publications for the H.S. Chapman Society, 2003. Description: 186 p. ; ISBN: 0958710449
Captain Cook as a hydrographer / transcript by Amy McGrath. Garden Island, N.S.W. : Naval Historical Society of Australia, 1997. Description: 13 leaves
A short history of the N.S.W. Association of University Women Graduates. [Sydney] : N.S.W. Association of University Women Graduates [1970- Description: v. ; ISBN: 0959932100 (v. 1)
Family, my home / Amy MacGrath. Kensington, N.S.W. : Towerhouse Publications, [1999] Description: 77 p.
Atherton, Michael, 1950- The mahogany ship [music] : for children's choir, two violins, viola, cello and percussion / by Michael Atherton ; words by Amy MacGrath and Michael Atherton. [Grosvenor Place, N.S.W. : Reproduced and distributed by Australian Music Centre, 1999] Description: 1 score (52 p.)
Ballot box [videorecording] / produced and directed by Amy McGrath for Ballot Box Pty Ltd. Sydney : Ballot Box Pty. Ltd on behalf of H S Chapman Society Inc, c1998. Description: 1 videocassettes (VHS) (46 min.)
Woodrow Wilson : a drama on President Woodrow Wilson, president of the U.S.A., 1912-20 / by Amy Cumpston (McGrath). Centennial Park, N.S.W. : A. McGrath, [1973]. Description: 66 leaves ; ISBN: 0959811311
The History of medical organisation in Australia / by Amy Gladys McGrath. [s.l.], 1975. Description: 3 v.
Kublai Khan / Amy McGrath. Brighton le Sands, N.S.W : Frank McGrath, 2006. Description: 426 p. : ISBN: 0958710473
Dunlop, John Wallace Sir, 1910-1983. Interview with Sir John Dunlop, company director [sound recording] / interviewer, Amy McGrath. 1981. Description: 1 sound cassette (ca. 90 min.) http://nla.gov.au/nla.oh-vn1621847
Gaudron, Mary, 1943- Interview with Justice Mary Gaudron, Deputy President of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, 1974-1979 [sound recording] / interviewer, Amy McGrath. 1979. Description: 2 sound cassettes (ca. 180 min.)
Backhouse, Brenda, 1917- Interview with Brenda Backhouse, first woman mayor of Woolahra Council [sound recording] / interviewer, Amy MacGrath. 1980. Description: 2 sound cassettes (ca. 90 min.)

Hazel de Berg collection ;

DeB 52

Cumpston speaks of the poets she admires, the direction poetry should take ; Cumpston also reads three of her poems. Notes Recorded on June 16, 1964.

Recordings include:

Amy Cumpston (McGrath) interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]. Poet and dramatist, she speaks of her family background; her dislike of university studies; about her poetry writing; the frustrations in being a poet and a playwright; about the element of luck in the writing game; running the Mews Playhouse; Australian theatre.

Interview with Judge Frank McGrath [her husband] [sound recording] / interviewer, Amy McGrath Trafford Whitelock interviewed by Amy McGrath [sound recording]

Captain Val St. Leon interviewed by Amy McGrath [sound recording]

Harold H. Glass interviewed by Amy McGrath [sound recording]

Amy is mentioned in 'An annotated bibliography of contemporary women poets of Australia'.

Author: Jennifer Strauss

Affiliation: Monash University, DOI: 10.1080/17449857808588507

Publication Frequency: 4 issues per year. Published in: Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 17, Issue 1 April 1978 , pages 63 - 82S. Previously published as: World Literature Written in English (0093-1705) until 2005

ACM Kingsford Smith Branch Incorporated.

http://www.chilli.net.au/~rcolman/ksf/review99.htm

Amy is noted to have been active in constitutional politics:

1997 - 1998 Annual Review

Rosemary Colman

Speaking on the stage of the Sydney Town Hall

as an ACM Candidate for the Constitutional Convention:

Notes from the President's Report 18 June 1998

The Constitutional Convention Campaign: Three of our members were co-opted as candidates: Amy McGrath, Tricia Gibbons (Ferguson), Rosemary Colman , and Quentin Schneider stood as an independent.

'Vote monitoring: Dr Amy McGrath's expertise in vote monitoring had the Australian Electoral Commission covering their lines of retreat.'

TELOPEA PARK ANNUAL SWIMMING CARNIVAL

The annual swimming carnival of the Telopea Park Intermediate High School was held yesterday , afternoon.

F.C.T. Girls under 14 years 33 yds.

Freestyle: A. Cumpston (T.P.), 1, M. Waring (G.) 2, E. Blakeley (T.P.) 3.

The Canberra Times Thursday 15 March 1934

Amy is my fourth cousin 1 x removed. See more about her husband Frank McGrath.

Daughter of JHL Cumpston and

Gladys Maeva Walpole

Siblings:

John Stanley Cumpston

Howard Bruce Cumpston